Daviesdt Posted January 5, 2019 Report Share Posted January 5, 2019 Seen these E trials bikes? Is this a new thing? Opinion? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
monkeyseemonkeydo Posted January 5, 2019 Report Share Posted January 5, 2019 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
marg26 Posted January 5, 2019 Report Share Posted January 5, 2019 You're best off asking on singletrackworld. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daviesdt Posted January 5, 2019 Author Report Share Posted January 5, 2019 @monkeyseemonkeydo I honestly don't know what to make of it! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
monkeyseemonkeydo Posted January 5, 2019 Report Share Posted January 5, 2019 It's a mountain bike... with a motor. They've been around for coming up to 10 years. That's absolutely nothing to do with trials. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Canardweb Posted January 7, 2019 Report Share Posted January 7, 2019 (edited) I think he is talking about the trials motorbike in the second picture! They have been around for some time now though. Edited January 7, 2019 by Canardweb Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dazza1414 Posted January 7, 2019 Report Share Posted January 7, 2019 (edited) This is a proper electric trials bike, the TRS is still a petrol engine Edited January 7, 2019 by Dazza1414 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
monkeyseemonkeydo Posted January 7, 2019 Report Share Posted January 7, 2019 1 hour ago, Canardweb said: I think he is talking about the trials motorbike in the second picture! They have been around for some time now though. That's got an exhaust Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
forteh Posted January 7, 2019 Report Share Posted January 7, 2019 Not to mention a cylinder, head and carburettor I wonder how different it is riding with a clutch on an electric motor compared to internal combustion? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alex Dark Posted January 7, 2019 Report Share Posted January 7, 2019 This is what you should be making a fuss about unsure if this is DOB of magnalium rim fame ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MadManMike Posted January 7, 2019 Report Share Posted January 7, 2019 That DOB looks like great fun! I'd quite like an e-bike to be honest (Yep, I know, I'm ready for the flaming), but they're still £££££ so I'll be using my legs for a while longer Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
monkeyseemonkeydo Posted January 7, 2019 Report Share Posted January 7, 2019 That DOB looks like a kids bike to me... Not sure quite who it's aimed at. As Dazza says, that GasGas is a real e-trials bike. The DOB looks more like a slightly larger Oset. I don't mind the idea of an eMTB but I'm going to wait a few years so that the battery tech slims down (together with the wait) and things become a bit more mature. The MTB industry seems like a bit of a mess at the moment and I'm hoping things might settle down a bit in the next few years. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MadManMike Posted January 7, 2019 Report Share Posted January 7, 2019 Surely it's just a motorised 20" size bike? I agree it looks small, but that somehow makes it look more fun. Yep, I'm holding out for smaller battery packs and hopefully a reduction in cost when more people are buying... hopefully the negative opinion on them will die down too, so I don't catch too much stick up in the hills of Wales Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Canardweb Posted January 8, 2019 Report Share Posted January 8, 2019 On 07/01/2019 at 11:22 AM, monkeyseemonkeydo said: That's got an exhaust Indeed, didn’t see that. Sorry Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark W Posted January 8, 2019 Report Share Posted January 8, 2019 That DOB looks like it's got one steeeep head angle! Agreed though, looks more like a kids bike. We had an Oset at TB a while back and we had a quick roll in the warehouse on it (after being told to by the owner :p) - I can see how they'd be a shitload of fun. Electric motors in cars are getting interesting with all the torque vectoring they're doing - there must be so much scope for that for motorbikes too, especially mototrials stuff. Not just a slave to a conventional powerband from a combustion engine, getting able to have torque/power applied pretty much however you want. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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